On graduation rates and auditing state databases
I sympathize with Florida’s Deputy Commissioner of Education Jeff Sellers, finding himself defending the state’s official graduation rate the week that Education Week published its Swanson-index issue and pointed to Florida as a low-graduation state, using numbers far below the state’s official numbers. Some perspective: Florida’s official graduation rate is inflated, but it’s still better […]
Mostly useless… except for blogging
I don’t know if any other bloggers has the experience I occasionally do, of wondering if people ever read my blog to see if I’m skipping work that I owe them. At almost any time, I owe scads of work to others, and I suppose they might all think I’m shirking my work when I […]
Stopping by the office on a steamy morning
Whose words these are you darned well know.My house is not on campus, thoughI’ve stumbled in by instinct. Gutshave steered me through the traffic flow. My teenagers must think me nuts.I work when they lie on their… beds;you smile upon their summer ease?Through morning steam the concrete juts and swallows cars and spits out keysand […]
Teachers and school demographics
A few weeks ago, the Journal of Labor Economics published C. Kirabo Jackson’s study of teacher moves away from schools in Charlotte that were moving towards single-race, segregated status (see lay description here; subscription-required article here). Today, the Education Policy Analysis Archives publishes Kitae Sohn’s article, Teacher Turnover: An Issue of Workgroup Racial Diversity (secondary […]
Someone left me out of the conspiracy
By Sherman Dorn on June 10, 2009
Dear Rev. Jeremiah “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me” Wright, Apart from fact that you spoke on the day a white supremacist shot a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum (once again, your timing is impeccable), there are only a few things I have to say to you: First, I […]
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